The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-30

it as near the Garden Of Eden as is possible
in so small q space And everybody knows
the Tampa Ewes are bewitching.
Some miscreant pelted the fast mail train
ON the South Florida at Mango last Sunday
night with pine knots. Efforts should be
made to ferret out the perpetrators Of such
dastardly deeds and punish them as they
richly deserve. Such actions as these are
becoming entirely too frequent and an ex-
ample should be made Of some of the offend
ers before damage Of an irreparable nature
is done
The South Florida railroad is building a
warehouse at the Plant Steamship Lines
wharf, Tampa, which will be used as bag
gage and freight transfer for Key West
and Havana business. The building, which
is right alongside the old wharf, will be
40xi00 feet and will have a switch from
tram car track, so that baggage can be
handled as expeditiously as possible and
with as little loss of time.
Gov. Perry has received letters from Dr.
S. S. Scales, health officer at Mobile, and
DR.. Holt, President of the Louisiana State
Board of Health, respectfully calling his at
tention to the danger of introducing yellow
fever through the port of Tampa, and Gov.
Perry at once sent copies of the letters to
DR.. j. p. Wall, President of the Board of
Health at Tampa, with a request that he
give the matter such attention as its i'm
portance demands.
Nassau. county is virtually without a tax
collector. In the last election Henry c.
Pickett was elected to fill the position as coll
lector of taxes, but declining to give bond,
the duties pertaining to the Office devolved
upon the old incumbent, w. F. Scott which
position he filled faithfully and well till his
recent appointment as postmaster at Fer
nandina, when he resigned the collectorship.
1t makes some people feel sad and discon-
ISOLATE to know that they cannot shake the
hand of the interesting tax collector every
week or two.
In former years the government owned
large quantities of land In and around St.
Augustine having ten reservations under
charge of the commander of the post. At
the present time the only land which has
not been leased or sold is the fort grounds,
the military barracks, the powder house
point, and the custom house, which latter
has been transferred to the Department of
the Interior. The old Governors garden"
has been sold to Mr.. Flagler, and numerous
other pieces Of property have been leased to
private individuals.
Mr.. j. H. Ahern, the ticket agent of the
South Florida railroad at Tampa, will stay
with that road although he had decided to
accept the general passenger agency of an
other road, which had been offered to him.
Mr. Ahern is an efficient and painstaking
agent, and another one as acceptable alike
to the company and to the travelling public
would be hard TO find. He has been con-
nected with the road for the past six or
seven years and has seen it grow from its
infancy with only few miles of track to be
one of the trunk lines Of the South,
Quite an amusing incident occurred in the
Senate at Tallahassee Friday, when Senator
Neel introduced memorial asking Congress
for an appropriation to render the river
Styx, In Liberty county, navigable. Sena-
tor Stockton moved to amend so that
Charon be allowed to establish ferry ON
the historic stream so the Senator from
Liberty could cross TO the other side.
Another Senator objected to the amendment
on the ground that the new constitution for
bids the establishment of ferries by special
act. Much merriment was had over the
matter.
I jesse Stranathan, living one and a half
miles east of Anthony, has discovered an in
exhaustible quantity Of superior lime rock
on his premises DR.. Edward Delouest and
State Chemist Kost, of Ocala on analysis,
pronounced it of excellent quality. 1t is re-
ported that DR.. u. A Smith has purchased
half interest in the deposit, and that lime
works will be erected. There is
no reason in the world why
one dollar of money should leave
there are acres of the choicest rock scattered
over the State, also as use for fertilizers.
Mr.. George Allen, cashier of the Key
West Bank, sends the following statement
to Jacksonville: $50 far there have been
| i've cases and three deaths of yellow fever
in this city. The two persons now i'll with
the disease are carefully isolated and are
| convalescing. We can trace every case of
the disease to one focus of infection-Ha-
Tho Of fl,ok
| fever Is under perfect control, and that it
has been nothing like an epidemic. No new
| cases have occurred for three days, although
| the weather has been hot. Excepting the
| two cases above mentioned, the city is per-
fectly healthy"
| We were presented Tuesday morning, says
| the early fruit man of the Ocala Banner
| by ID. G. Cutler, manager of A. Mead's
| splendid orange grove near Ocala, with q
| box of delicious apricots. The trees bearing
| this large, fine favored and palatable fruit
| We're imported from California three years
| ago by Mr.. Mead as an experiment, and if in
| bearing and quality they met his expecta-
lions he would enlarge his planting. The
| result from the twelve trees planted three
years ago is highly gratifying and encour-
aging, and Mr.. Cutler has instructions to set
out 10000 peach trees and bud them with
apricots Thus, gradually, the climate and
soil of Florida, by judicious experiments, is
found to be suitable for many varieties of
fruits and the area is being enlarged. The
fruit received was highly appreciated.
Rumors are again rife in st. Augustine
that dissatisfaction is abroad among a large
number of the carpenters employed there,
and the union, no doubt, will be called upon
to adjust the matter at its next regular
meeting. Messrs. Mcclure and Mcdonald
the contractors, are now running a larger
body of men than has been usual upon the
different branches of work going on in and
about the Ponce de Leon Hotel Mr.. Flaeler
pays out alone every month to mechanics
and laborers 900, to-wit: S20,0 900 to the
mechanics and $40, 900 to the laboring men.
The work has been going on now
some nineteen months, which would
Indicate and show that the gross sum of
$575, 900 has been disbmsed by Mr.. Flagler
through Mcclure and Mcdonald for the
laboring class alone since the work was first
commenced and the indications are that it
is not more than half finished In fact, the
foundations Of the great Alcazar are only
just being laid, and many new additions
will be commenced upon the arrival of Mr..
Flagler, about June l. The carpenters
should think twice before making any
trouble
The Hillshorough County Board of Health
held q meeting at Tampa Thursday and for
mulated their rules for the season. Agents
wore appointed and their salaries fixed as
follows: Tho agents for Plant City and